We celebrate two birthdays for our family in April.
Saturday, April 7th, was Todd's birthday. Todd is our son-in-law and married to our oldest child, Nissa. They live in Michigan. I posted this picture on Facebook on his birthday. It was taken the first time we met Todd. Can you tell he makes our Nissa happy. For this I am very grateful. Her life has not been a piece of cake and to finally see her happy is such a blessing.
Wednesday, April 18th, was Jacob's birthday. Jacob is our son and the youngest of our kids. He turned 43 this year. Where did those years go???? I posted these pictures of Jake from 1980. He was 5 and 6 years old in them.
This is Jake's first day in Kindergarten.
This was also taken in Kindergarten. It is his very first school picture. I found a box turtle and brought it home for the kids. The kids named the turtle Toby. They made a two room home for it out of boxes. One room had a sand floor with a small pie tin in one corner filled with water for Toby to drink or swim in. The other room had a grass floor and a flag in the wall so Toby could say the Pledge of Allegiance to each morning. Every morning Jake would take the turtle to the bathroom sink and run water over him for his morning bath. Then give Jake would give Toby a kiss before he left for school. The morning of Jake's kindergarten school pictures, Toby grabbed Jake's upper lip and wouldn't let go. I heard Jake yell "MA"!! I ran into the bathroom and found my son standing there with a turtle hanging off his lip. I couldn't do anything but pull the turtle off of Jake. Hence the turtle mouth print on his upper lip. That evening we took Toby back up the hill and let him loose to find a home for the winter.
This is Jake and Jennifer. She was his first girl friend. They were playing dress up in old clothes. They are just too cute. Such good friends.
This was taken at the Church Halloween party. Jake wanted to be Dracula. We made that happen. I got disclosing tablets from the dentist for his mouth to stay red. We put Vaseline on his hair to make it stay back. It took 4 shampooings (according to spell check I just invented a word there) to even get part of the Vaseline out of his hair. But Jake was a cute Dracula.
Love my family and remembering these fun moments in our lives.
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